I just registered for the Microsoft TechEd North America 2013 conference. This message confirms your attendance to the conference at the New Orleans Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. Also, I am staying at the Renaissance New Orleans Pere Marquette. I cant wait to see everyone and attend the awesome sessions this year while earning a few more certifications and spending time in the Labs

In case you wanted something other than the the Count Down widget on your Website or embedded somewhere fun, if you like the Registration Widget below. I have included the code for you to embed wherever you want. The Registration Widget allow SharePoint Peeps to register for SharePoint Saturday Los Angeles 2013 wherever you embed the code.

I have included the code for the Countdown widget for the SharePoint Saturday Los Angeles event that everyone speaking, sponsoring, or attending should post up their blog, social network, website or wherever you think would be fun…

A friend of of mine John Spinella is an Visio Studio ALM Ranger and the first person I know who could get the SharePoint builds automated in TFS. He and the Team have just released a set of build process / reference templates

The Build Release and Deploy (BRD) Lite is a set of build process reference templates that allows you to quickly setup a real-world build process in your environment. It leverages extensions from Community TFS Build Extensions, which provide capabilities for your Team Foundation builds such as automatic compile, build version number customization, build packaging, code signing, basic deployment functionality, and environment configuration file management into your Team Foundation builds.

The “Lite” comes from giving you a build template that you or your Build administrators can use “out of the box” for most scenarios. Of course, you can always customize and extend as needed.

Visual Studio ALM Rangers

This guidance is created by the Visual Studio ALM Rangers, who have the mission to provide out of band solutions for missing features and/or guidance. This content was created with support from Microsoft Product Group, members of Microsoft Services, Microsoft Most Valued Professionals (MVPs) and technical specialists from technology communities around the globe, giving you a real-world view from the field, where the technology has been tested and used.

What is included in the downloads?

The solution is divided in separate packages to give you the choice of selective downloads. The default download is the first of the listed packages:

As Abu, the build master, I would like to understand the changes and impact of Visual Studio 2012 on BRDLite As Abu, the build master, I need guidance on extending the BRDLite reference template with new custom activities. As Abu, the build master, I would like a number of BRDLite reference templates, which implement scenario based custom activities.

Community TFS Build Extensions – this project makes use of the Community TFS Build Extensions which is a collection of custom build activities, templates and other resources for Team Foundation Build. Please visit and follow this project for the latest releases.

SharePoint Saturday is FREE, open to the public and is your local chance to immerse yourself in SharePoint! Meet accomplished technology leaders, network with your peers and increase your proficiency in SharePoint in a fun and free environment.

Event Details:

Breakfast, lunch and snacks will be served at the venue.

Wireless access will be provided so you can follow along with your mobile Twitter client.

#SPSLA Call for Speakers is now open! You can submit speaker information and session abstracts using our online form: http://sps.la/spkrform

Deadline for entries is April 19th. However, we will be making early announcements of speakers. The final list of speakers will be announced April 30th. One more note, we have some different tracks that most of you may not have seen before: